Precisely.

Agreed, that example is. I also use it for high-level functional stuff - something like Haskell's monads or Java's "chain-of-responsibility". Like:

    output = reduce(lambda x, f: f(x), chain_of_processors, input)

So, given a list [f,g,h], this would be h(g(f(input))). The star-case is when input is a n-touple, and each function works on `n' arguments. But now that I wrote it out without a for loop, it's obviously trivial to add the star in the right place. My mistake! Thanks for helping me catch it :)

Cheers,

Andrey